Jon Johannsson’s 2008 Awards
Jon Johannsson at Pundit gives out his 2008 awards in his final column:
- Politician of the Year – John Key
- Politician of the Decade – Helen Clark
- Comeback Politician of the Year – Roger Douglas and then Bill English
- Political Loser of the Year – Gordon Copeland
- Political Event of the Year – Privileges Committee hearings into Winston Peters’ conduct
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December 22nd, 2008 at 10:35 am
Lame.
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:37 am
Cheerleaders for Clark really irk me. Most commenators feel obliged to say something nice about her, even if it’s just for regard to her endurance, but really, we’ve seen the true cost now, so why continue with the distortions?
What kind of manager allows so much to go wrong on their watch? She wasn’t so much a manager, as a local mafioso Capo. Perhaps the catagory just needs to changed.
Politician of the decade could just have easily have been John Key, since his ability to turn around a Party on 20% of the vote, to a winning motivated political force, started about the same time as the Clark regime began to crumble. And he’d not been in professional politics as long as Helen.
You see, it all depends on which angle you shine the light. There should be no problem in talking ill of dead if they were, really, honest to goodness ratbags.
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:45 am
Clark or Peters should be loser of the year
Political Event of The year: Key’s arrangement with the Maori Party
In fact Key’s approach to Maori, his defeat of Clark despite all the dirt digging and his ability to bring more discipline and focus to National suggest to me, though I am partisan, that Key is Politician of the Decade
Cullen could be Politician of the Year the various tricks he has got up to surely quality him above all
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 am
Its Johannsson OECD, he is second only to Trotter is blind following of failed socialism.
A life long academic of course.
December 22nd, 2008 at 11:05 am
My vote for Champagne Socialist of the year goes to John Key
December 22nd, 2008 at 11:06 am
Jacob van Arsehole
Infants like yourself don’t have a vote.
December 22nd, 2008 at 11:23 am
JVh
At least on Kiwiblog you can speak your mind, do they allow that at the VDS
December 22nd, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Johannsson has always been a prime kisser of Clarks arse.
December 22nd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Politician of the Year – Michael Cullen for leaving NZ in a sound economic state
Politician of the Decade/Century – Helen Clark
Comeback Politician of the Year – Phil Goff
Political Loser of the Year – Peter Dunne
Political Event of the Year – Taping of National party MP’s which revealed their true hidden agenda.
December 22nd, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Deluded troll of the Year: r thscargill for thinking Cullen left NZ in a sound economic state and for seeking to re-litigate nonsense over secret agendas
December 23rd, 2008 at 8:10 am
rthscargill, whose namesake elected himself ‘President of the NUM’ for Life, and had plans to handover the role to his son on his demise.
NUM folded, and so ‘Moneybags’ Scargill simply moved his Fiefdom to the control of the very well funded Miners Pension Fund.
A job so worth having that so many people died prematurely leaving so much extra money for the rest.
Scargill was and is an irrelevance
December 23rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
It’s great how the “trendies” latch on to Gordon Copland as a loser. Don’t think Copland ever had that amount of influence to earn the loser title.Gordon was closer to reality than the Green fairies. What a pack of wankers !!!
Winston Peters and Clark must win the losers title .
Great not to hear from idiots like Ron Mark(Tough man) or Doug Woolerton(New Ziiland) warbling on.
December 23rd, 2008 at 8:47 am
Ar Arfur (a.k.a. Mr Scargill sir in five-star hotels,) is/was a classic example of died in the wool socialism. A good friend of my now deceased ex-father-in-law (who was President of the NUR), Arfur knew where the gold was buried and made sure it was regularly supplemented with additional nuggets. A self proclaimed “Man of the people” and “common man”, Arfur’s home in Hampshire, with 120 acres and a stud, was purchased to ensure the auto-workers were kept in jobs, as he refused to purchase anything but Range-Rovers with which to inspect the estate and Land Rovers for his farm and animal workers to troll about in while earning their daily crust (actually, minimum wage enabled his workers to have beans on crust twice a week). His ‘home up north’, a council house purchased during the strike of ’84, was, of course, maintained in pristine 1950s condition to reflect the life-style that he is certain all working class (everyone) people should aspire to.
If I gave a shit for Socialism, Arfur would be the first person I would give it to!
December 23rd, 2008 at 8:54 am
I think Gordon Copeland has tried very hard. He has the same values as I do, Conservative Christian. Being a Conservative Christian is not easy in Parliament these days. You have the feminists and homosexuals against you on the left and you have the agnostic libertarians against you on the right.
I think he was quite right to leave United future once Peter Dunn revealed his true colours. Gordon is a man of integrity and I for one wish him well.
December 23rd, 2008 at 9:30 am
The socialist trotters always know where the best troughs are.
They never create anything, just use resources worked for by others.
No doubt the Winegate 4 will be trying to convince us that they were goig to turn their plunder into water for the benefit of all, and the common good.
They are truly despicable.
December 23rd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
now i have access to here..
..but am blocked from the general comments thread..
so..dpf..
..as you claim i am not blocked..
..what gives..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)